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San Francisco, CA · simonbukin@gmail.com

Summary

Design Engineer with expertise in designing and building scalable frontend solutions. Skilled in leading projects from ideation to deployment, collaborating cross-functionally to deliver high-impact features.

Experience

Morf Health

2024 - Present

Founding Product Engineer · San Francisco, CA

Building AI-powered healthcare automation tools to help small practices streamline tricky patient-facing workflows. Design and frontend development with Figma, React and TypeScript, interfacing with a Go and protobuf backend. Handled full migration from legacy NextJS project to a Vite-based React app, 4xing percieved performance and initial load times.

Variance (formerly Intrinsic)

2024

Senior Design Engineer · San Francisco, CA

Led frontend development for enterprise AI safety tooling. Built component library with ShadCN and Figma, developed typesafe fullstack patterns with Redux, Prisma, and TypeScript. Shipped features on tight timelines that closed $250K+ contracts.

Archipelago AI

2023 - 2024

Founding Frontend Engineer · Remote

Built the entire frontend from scratch in Svelte, including onboarding flows, chat interfaces, and the marketing site using Astro and React. Established the design system with Figma and Tailwind. Built custom refraction shader for use with D3.js in marketing materials

Google, YouTube

2022 - 2023

Software Engineer · San Bruno, CA

Built Web Components for YouTube Premium using C++ and Polymer. Ran A/B tests that improved click-through rates by 8% across 500K users. Implemented compliance features for the Premium cancellation flow serving 100K+ users.

Frontend Software Development Engineer · Seattle, WA

Developed sign-up flows for RStudio integration using React, Styled Components, and RxJS. Maintained 85%+ test coverage with Cypress and Jest. Documented oncall processes, reducing ticket backlog by 20%.

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Open Source & Volunteer

Research Programmer · Santa Cruz, CA

Added geography features to Taxonium.org, a genomic visualization tool used by scientists to track COVID-19’s genetic origins. Built with React and Deck.gl, optimized for datasets with 1M+ samples.

Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

2016 - 2020

BS Computer Science, Minor in Statistics